M48.5 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified
The ICD 10 Code for
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified is listed as
M48.5. Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.
| ICD 10 CM Field |
Value |
| Diagnosis Code: |
M48.5
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| Description: |
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified
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Collapsed vertebra NOS
- Wedging of vertebra NOS
- Excludes1: current injury -see Injury of spine, by body region
- fatigue fracture of vertebra (M48.4)
- pathological fracture of vertebra due to neoplasm (M84.58)
- pathological fracture of vertebra due to other diagnosis (M84.68)
- pathological fracture of vertebra due to osteoporosis (M80.-)
- pathological fracture NOS (M84.4-)
- stress fracture of vertebra (M48.4-)
- traumatic fracture of vertebra (S12.-, S22.-, S32.-)
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from subcategory M48.5:
- A - initial encounter for fracture
- D - subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- G - subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
- S - sequela of fracture
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| Chapter |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99) |
| Block |
Spondylopathies (M45-M49) |
| Parent |
M48 - Other spondylopathies |
| ICD-10-CM Children (deeper level / typically more specific) of M48.5: |
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| M48.50 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified |
| M48.51 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region |
| M48.52 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervical region |
| M48.53 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervicothoracic region |
| M48.54 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracic region |
| M48.55 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region |
| M48.56 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbar region |
| M48.57 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbosacral region |
| M48.58 - Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region |
| ICD-10-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of M48.5: |
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| M48.0 - Spinal stenosis |
| M48.1 - Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier] |
| M48.2 - Kissing spine |
| M48.3 - Traumatic spondylopathy |
| M48.4 - Fatigue fracture of vertebra |
| M48.8 - Other specified spondylopathies |
| M48.9 - Spondylopathy, unspecified |
